Philip van Dijk was an 18th century painter from the Northern Netherlands

Biography

According to the RKD, he was a student of Arnold Boonen

Arnold Boonen

Arnold Boonen , an eminent portrait painter, was born at Dordrecht, in the Dutch Republic in 1669. He was first a scholar of Arnold Verbius, and was later instructed by Godefried Schalken...

 in Amsterdam, but became a student of Adriaen van der Werff

Adriaen van der Werff

Adriaen van der Werff was an accomplished Dutch painter of portraits and erotic, devotional and mythological scenes. His brother, Pieter van der Werff , was his principal pupil and assistant.-Life:...

 in Rotterdam, where he married in 1708. Later the same year, he became a member of the Guild of St. Luke in Middelburg

Middelburg

Middelburg is a municipality and a city in the south-western Netherlands and the capital of the province of Zeeland. It is situated in the Midden-Zeeland region. It has a population of about 48,000.- History of Middelburg :...

. In 1718 he became a member of the Confrerie Pictura

Confrerie Pictura

The Confrerie Pictura was a more or less academic club of artists founded in 1656 in The Hague, by local art painters, who were unsatisfied by the Guild of Saint Luke there.-History:The guild of St...

, where he became a popular painter. Much later he returned to teach at the drawing academy and had various students, including Jan Augustini

Jan Augustini

Jan Augustini , was an 18th century painter from the Northern Netherlands.-Biography:According to the RKD he was a landscape painter who made large wall decorations, many of which are still installed in the buildings for which they were designed. He was a pupil of Philip van Dijk in the Hague...

, Louis de Moni

Louis de Moni

Louis de Moni , was an 18th century genre painter from the Northern Netherlands.-Biography:According to the RKD he was a pupil of Van Kessel and J. B. Biset in Breda, and from 1721-1725 he attended the Hague drawing academy associated with the Confrerie Pictura, where he studied with Philip van Dyk...

, and Hendrik Pothoven (1725–1807) from 1746. He left the Hague temporarily for 10 years in 1726, when he moved to Kassel

Kassel

Kassel is a town located on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Kassel Regierungsbezirk and the Kreis of the same name and has approximately 195,000 inhabitants.- History :...

 to become court painter for William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel

William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel

William VIII ruled Hesse-Kassel 1730 until his death, first as regent and then as landgrave ....

. In this capacity, he painted Landgravine Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel

Landgravine Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel

Landgravine Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel was a daughter of Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel and Maria Amalia of Courland....

 and her family. In 1737 he returned to Middelburg to pay back-dues for the Guild there, and in 1750 he is registered as back to the Hague where he became court painter to Marie Louise's son William IV, Prince of Orange

William IV, Prince of Orange

William IV, Prince of Orange-Nassau , born Willem Karel Hendrik Friso, was the first hereditary stadtholder of the Netherlands.-Early life:...

.

Legacy

His family portrait paintings hang in many museums located in former residences of the Hesse-Cassel and Orange-Nassau families. His painting of a lute player was used centuries later as a model for the Dutch 100 guilder note.